I assume in this context "low crime" doesn't refer to shoplifting, but to gang violence, murders, kidnappings, and shootings. If you fear about your life daily, you will probably be more willing to accept extreme measures than someone living in a relative comfort and safety.

I would bet it depends on the rate of each happening to the average voter.

I didn’t say that, and I even clipped the relevant Wiki article which described the trade-off of law/liberty.

According to the voting population of El Salvador, yes.

If society has philosophically nice and clean set of rules that allow brutal gangs to terrorize the citizenry, just how worthwhile are those rules? Maybe the system needs a reboot before they can be worthwhile again.